Jackson raged after being confronted about the shove, which took place this past Friday, and was eventually fined $10,000, which was subtracted from his fight purse. MMAFighting.com first reported the incident.

“Hitting him for [$10,000] is light, I will say,” Lewis added.

Bellator took place at Landers Center in Southaven, Miss. The event’s main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on Spike TV and Spike.com.

Lewis was under the impression Jackson had been fined for a separate shoving incident in a previous Bellator fight against ex-champ Christian M’Pumbu, which took place at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., in February.

“I believe that he had another offense like that that was a several thousand dollar fine recently,” Lewis said.

A Bellator official referred the matter to the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Commission Athletic Unit, which oversaw this past February’s Bellator 110 event, but a commission rep could not immediately be reached.

Jackson’s reps weren’t immediately available for comment.

Lewis said he went backstage after the Bellator 120 weigh-ins and took Jackson to task about the shove, which he called “an assault action” per commission rules that forbid physical contact between fighters at weigh-ins.

“His reaction to me was, ‘f–k you, motherf–ker, fine me,'” Lewis said. “I said, ‘You’re getting it.’ And it kept elevating back and forth … and it went to the point where I thought, geez, he’s going to take a swing at me.”

Later, Lewis spoke to Bellator officials, noting a removal was “what should be taking place.”

“He’d be pulled out of any other professional sport,” Lewis said. “I’m the head commissioner. I didn’t want this to happen to me. You can take a football player out of a game and you don’t hurt the team that much, per se. There’s a replacement.”

At the same time, the commissioner noted he didn’t want to remove Jackson from the card because he didn’t want the promotion to lose its headliner over a personal incident.

“This whole thing was set up around this fight, and I’m not going to punish Bellator for that,” he said.

After three rounds with Lawal (12-4 MMA, 4-3 BMMA), former UFC champ Jackson (34-11 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) was declared the winner by unanimous decision. With the victory, he topped Bellator’s Season 10 light heavyweight tournament, though at the event’s post-fight presser, he sparred verbally with Lawal and welcomed a rematch.

Lewis said he had no further issues with Jackson after the incident following the weigh-ins.

“Quinton is going to have to learn to cool it,” he said. “Will he ever do it? I don’t know.”

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